GALILEO she was the first in her family to go to college she was the first in her family to cross the sea she was the first in her family to miss thanksgiving dinner and when she finally flew in in december she had the nicest gifts to give and all the cards read "sorry for not returning your calls" so galileo galilei if you dream too big they'll put you away ever since he was a baby he was flirting with danger he could never go fast enough, he could never fly too high so on the 302nd lap with his wife and kids in the stands he was going 110 when he hit the wall so that became the day when his son learned what every boy eventually knows that nobody wants to turn out exactly like his dad so the boy picked music because it was safer yeah guitar was more his speed but it's not the guitar that kills you it's the dream - A MILE NORTHEAST hey remember before we turned 25 bellies full of wine we were living the single life and we still believed in song we thought a song would help us understand the world we thought a song would help us understand the girl we were just looking for our chance to understand the worth of half hours on earth well me i moved a mile about northeast where there's no lease and more trees i built me some fires and i watched the full moon and i listened to the trains roll by "but do you ever feel alone" she says "don't you ever feel alone" and i hope you're having a nice time out there on the coastline yeah and don't you worry i'm living the good life with my wine yeah i'm fine but before you go asking questions ask them of yourself is where you are where you want to be? do you want to be where you are? "but do you ever feel alone" she says "don't you ever feel alone" she says "you know, it's okay to feel alone" - LOVE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO i woke up hungover and alone 180 days in a row it says here the midwest ain't so bad as the mideast so i guess i'll walk the streets again no particular place to go but i walked the river instead and i felt the river again and i held the river again like we did last year i think sad songs are happy songs for when you're sad but i'll feel alright if the room tonight will sing along to my idea of what the west would sing if the west could sing a song tell me when it's my turn to sing tell me when it's my turn to solo i write songs instead of letters to friends maybe i should put that in a song that's okay if there's no missed calls there's still some whisky left at home because ever since the first of the year the last time i woke up in your home it's not that i don't want a drink with you it's that i'd rather do it alone well i thought it was a feeling with a complicated meaning i thought that i would know for sure when it came along i thought that it was up to the other i thought that it was impressing your mother yes i thought that that was our goal but she thought it was the bible and he thought that it was for sale because he mostly cared for the making of it and she mostly cared for the saying of it and i knew that was not my goal but if you're asking my opinion what i really think about it take a deep breath and sing along love is something that you do - I JUST WANNA GET PAID this next song/is about the terrible things that we do for money/and it meditates on the question "who runs the world? why is the men who make all the money, or is it the women that they court?"/it's called i just wanna get paid/well he gets into his fancy car/and he lights up a big cigar/and drove through the traffic at the break of the day/just to sit in a mahogany chair/and now it's "sell! sell trinkets!" to betsy and lou/who already own a trinket or two/and it's their own damn fault if they can't pay the bills when they come due/but salesman, salesman tell me why do you sell/the brand new model when the old runs well/he says "son, asking questions like that around here would get my a** fired/"because i went to school and i got into debt and then i bought a car and i got into debt and now i'm buying a house and i'm really going into debt and i just wanna get paid, you know, i just wanna get paid, you understand, i just need to get paid" i said well i do understand, i'm a working musician/trying to do the same myself/and those are three important things you listed/your education, your transportation, your place to lay your head/but if i could, let me ask you a few questions about the specifics/tell me well why'd you go to school/he says "son! in this modern economy, if you're ever going to get ahead, you're going to have to have yourself an education"/and i thought well, that's a fair point/BUT HOW DO YOU GET AHEAD IF THE EDUCATION JUST LEAVES YOU IN DEBT/tell me well why'd you buy the car/he said "i gotta get around and there ain't no damn rail system in this town"/(by the way)/i said well maybe you should do what the skinny folks do and pedal instead/yeah let's hear it for bicycles!/also while we are on the subject of bicycles or while i have put us on the subject of bicycles i have read in the newspaper that some of you have less money than you had before/and if this happens on a large enough scale they call that a recession/well if you find yourself in a recession and are looking to save some money/my uncle used to sing to me/you know bikes, they're cheaper than cars/bikes, they're cheaper than cars/bikes, they're cheaper than cars/and they're cheaper than a gym membership too/tell me well why'd you buy the house/he said "oh shit…i know this one…oh, babies - they take up room, right?"/i said yeah, that's why i buy condoms/because condoms are cheaper than babies/condoms are cheaper than babies/condoms are cheaper than babies/and they're cheaper than a gym membership too/but i said in addition to these essential three/you got a lot of sh*t that you don't really need/he said "girls like nice things"/i said aha!/you just want to get laid, my friend/you just wanna get laid, i see/you just wanna get laid/he says "yeah"/i said oh, there's nothing wrong with that/why everybody wants to get laid/a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do/and a woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do/it's just all your fancy sh*t need not be part of the equation is all i'm sayin/but anyway, he knows just what to do/and so he does because saturday night is his night on the town/talking sports with the boys and he's drinking 'em down/and he's setting his sights on the blonde at the bar/and says "boys, watch how it's done/"can i buy you a drink"/yeah, i don't mind/and out comes the finest italian wine/and she says what do you do/and he says "sales"/well that's fine, she says, and what do you read?/he says "why would you read when you can watch TV?"/she says check please/he says "don't leave! i can see your a** in those jeans!/"oh sh*t"/so it's no luck with this girl/no luck with next girl/the next bar/the next ten bars/no problem at all, this man knows just what to do and so drunkely driving the bad parts of town/looking for a girl who's ready to get down/and there on the right with the stockings high/he slows and rolls down his window/her kids are at home and they're fast asleep/and they don't know their mommy is out on the street/no they don't know their mommy is out on the street/no they don't know their mommy is out on the street/'cause when the shop closed down and the dad skipped town/she still had to feed 'em somehow ` and so five minutes later he's a sniveling mess/and he's talking about his mommy and he's talking about his debt/he says "i don't wanna go home, i'm so alone, and i just wanted to get laid, you see, i just wanted to get laid, you understand, but i just wanted to get laid"/she says well, that's nice/but i just wanna get paid, sir, i just wanna get paid - THANKS FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT maybe you'll be a teacher maybe he'll never leave why don't we just say what's mine is mine and what's yours is yours or maybe i'll be a farmer what if you were my farmer's wife maybe we would be good together or maybe we wouldn't or one day when you're a teacher what if i were a teacher too what if we taught together in the same school in a few more years and i'd ask "how is your husband?" you'll ask if i have a girlfriend you'll ask if i still write songs in my spare time and i probably still will then but i hope they're better yeah maybe if i get better one day i'll write you a letter i'll say "i'm fine now, i found someone! "i don't have to write lonely songs anymore!" but tonight you go home with your boyfriend i'll go write songs about girlfriends i'll go write songs until i find somebody who wants to hear me sing - Trains Across the Sea is: Andy Gallagher Joe Gilliland Counterfeit Madison Adam Nedrow Adrian Jusdanis played fiddle on tracks 1 and 3. He was also half the band from October 2009 to July 2010. On track 3, Ethan Borman played organ and Matt Claugh-Hunter played bass. Track 4 was recorded at The Awarehouse on July 1st, 2010. Suzana Clow designed the album art. Giles Clement took the cover photo. The album was mastered by Bill Henderson of Azimuth Mastering in Philadelphia, PA. Recorded in summer 2010 at home in Columbus, OH.